Impact: The BCRED started in 2015 and is building upon the biomarker and clinical research done by Magnus Sjogren in Psychiatric disorders.

Hypotheses: Eating disorders develop as a result of an interplay between biological (e.g. genetic, personality, cognitive, emotional) and psychosocial (e.g. environmental factors, social, personal exposure e.g. to traumatic life events, and coping skills) factors. Based on these "vulnerability factors", development of disease may be triggered by life events. Once Eating Disorders are developed, there are maintaining factors that prevent recovery both biological (e.g. starvation in itself) and functional e.g. extensive physical exercise, re-enforcing rituals, and avoidance behaviours. The consequence of eating disorders are often devastating with low level of functioning, social isolation, somatic complications e.g. osteopenia and heart failures, and development of a chronicity.